In the 1960s, Tucson House was luxury apartments. And in the 1970s, the City of Tucson took it over and transformed it into public housing. For the last few years, the city has been working on a $188 million renovation plan.
In previous KGUN9 reporting from 2023, the city was planning on beginning construction in late 2024 or early 2025. Now, construction is set to begin in July of 2025, according to the City of Tucson’s Housing and Community Development Deputy Director Johanna Hernandez. The project is set to take 30 months, completing one floor at a time.
“This is a big complex project with a lot of funding sources, so part of that delay is getting all of that lined up,” she said. “We’ve only formally pushed it back like once.”…